Predator of an Omniscient Being

Summary:

A man/creature with infinitely perfect perception up to a certain distance, terrified of its predator

Predator of an Omniscient Being

Sonderance 07 Feb 2020 21:03

Hello all! Please forgive me if this isn't up to snuff, this is my first attempt at an SCP.

The basic premise of this concept is that there's a group of humanoid beings with perfect visual omniscience up to a certain distance; that is, they can see everything that's happening around them, down to the microscopic level. Each member of the group carries with them a book whose pages are covered with color, with each infinitesimal speck of pigment corresponding to a word or concept. The book describes the group's origin as well as the existence of a species specifically evolved to hunt them. Most notably, the book's contents mostly consist of comforting affirmations, as each of these creatures is plagued by paranoia and the fear of prey.

The article itself would, in its current conception, follow this chronological timeline:

• A member of this group approaches the Foundation and requests protection from its (potentially imagined) predator
• A simple gauntlet of tests are performed to gauge the extent of the being's "sight"
• Several short interviews give some backstory into the being's psychology and the nature of its paranoia, as well as assessing whether the being would be useful in a Thaumiel capacity
• (Optional) A short aside where several commonly-used colors in the book and their analogous phrases are deciphered
• An incident occurs wherein one of the being's feared 'predators' is found on the grounds of the facility, viciously dismembered
• One last interview log would let the being ruminate on the fact that every thing, no matter how monstrous, has a predator; it would also potentially let slip that it is somehow a predator of human beings, completing the cycle
• Something about the way the predator is killed is similar to the deaths at Dyatlov Pass, leading to the relocation of the being to a more classified investigation unit as well as the expungement of any information directly related to the case
• Upon realizing that something is hunting its predator, the being no longer thinks of the Foundation's protection as necessary and ceases cooperating.

Apologies if this is longer than the usual summary! Please let me know if you have any critiques/questions. Any struck-out text has been removed, but left in for the sake of still having it on hand.

Last edited on 11 Feb 2020 02:12 by Sonderance Show more

Re: Predator of an Omniscient Being

Eryur 07 Feb 2020 23:38

I think it's a good idea but this idea would lead to an infinite ladder of hostile anomalies if they right. Truth be told it sounds to big to be a not contest one in fact it could be used like scp-001-ex good boy which could be a problem but I think with a good push it would do great.

Good luck

Re: Predator of an Omniscient Being

Sonderance 08 Feb 2020 02:54

Hello! I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean. In my current conception of this idea, there are only really two predators:

• The predator that's evolved specifically to hunt the semi-omniscient subject of the article
• Whatever creature ends up killing/mutilating the above predator, implying something even more powerful

The idea that there's always another predator is more implied than anything else! It's really just an attempt to SCPify the "There's always a bigger fish" scene from The Phantom Menace.

Re: Predator of an Omniscient Being

MalyceGraves 10 Feb 2020 02:24

First, I want to mention that I appreciate that you put out a basic outline of the skip you intend to write. Often I read ideas that are just "Hey, I wanna write about this thing." and I have to try and decipher how it will potentially look as a skip. It's frustrating and often fruitless.

On with the crit->

A member of this group approaches the Foundation and requests protection from its (potentially imagined) predator

I like this idea, it gives you a solid "thing" that is in containment.

A simple gauntlet of tests are performed to gauge the extent of the being's "sight"

I wouldn't go too far into this. An article that is made up of endless testing/results can be tedious to read and often loses its reader.

Several short interviews give some backstory into the being's psychology and the nature of its paranoia, as well as assessing whether the being would be useful in a Thaumiel capacity

I'd stick to one or two good articles, where we get an idea about this entity's personality, their awareness/who they are as a person.

(Optional) A short aside where several commonly-used colors in the book and their analogous phrases are deciphered

This could be interesting, and you could pepper this throughout the article.

An incident occurs wherein one of the being's feared 'predators' is found on the groups of the facility, viciously dismembered

I assume you meant "grounds". Is it one of the staff or was it an incursion from the outside?

One last interview log would let the being ruminate on the fact that every thing, no matter how monstrous, has a predator; it would also potentially let slip that it is somehow a predator of human beings, completing the cycle

This, and the previous note, gives rise to the thought that there is no predator at all, but rather that the entity in question IS the predator and WE are it's prey. I want to point out at this point that making the Foundation look stupid is never a good move. They've had their issues, but they have also successfully contained thousands and thousands of harmful predatory entities, as well as successfully preventing a plurality of world-ending catastrophes. If this is indeed an entity attempting to predate upon the staff and employees of the Foundation, assume that they'd be caught in fairly short order.

Something about the way the predator is killed is similar to the deaths at Dyatlov Pass, leading to the relocation of the being to a more classified investigation unit as well as the expungement of any information directly related to the case

Expungement is typically reserved for things that are fairly dangerous. Cognitohazardous imagry, infohazards, etc. Things that are dangerous enough and not of sufficient enough importance to merit inoculating the people studying it. Use it sparingly, as it rarely does anything to heighten the tension of a piece. It just gets annoying.

I believe that the idea overall is sufficiently interesting to merit a greenlight. Just don't go overboard with the spooky predator hunting humans bit.